Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Registrar must, by notifying a person who has applied under section 1272A, give the person a director identification number if the Registrar is satisfied that the person's identity has been established.
(1A) The Registrar may make a request of the person under subsection (5) for the purposes of satisfying the Registrar that the person's identity has been established.
(2) The Registrar must make a record of the person's director identification number.
(3) The Registrar may, by notifying a person, cancel the person's director identification number if:
(a) the Registrar is no longer satisfied that the person's identity has been established; or
(b) the Registrar has given the person another director identification number.
(4) If:
(a) at the time the person is given a director identification number under this section, the person is not an eligible officer; and
(b) the person does not, within 12 months after that time, become an eligible officer;
the person's director identification number is taken to have been cancelled at the end of the 12 month period.
(5) The Registrar may request, but not compel, the person:
(a) if the person has a tax file number--to give the Registrar a written statement of the person's tax file number; or
(b) if the person does not have a tax file number:
(i) to apply to the Commissioner of Taxation for a tax file number; and
(ii) to give the Registrar a written statement of the person's tax file number after the Commissioner of Taxation has issued it.